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METHOD OF WORKING BUTTON HOLES.

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METHOD OF WORKING BUTTON-HOLES.

.l-LPECIE'ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,635. dated November 3, 185.

Application filed April 28, 1855. Serial No. 163,709. (Mcdeh) cheaply and easily made with the most profitable application of the material used in itsf construction, and whereby labor is largely economized and a good button-hole is pro duced. Such button hole strip, like other'but ton-hole strips, may be made of any suitable material and of any desired length, with the button-holes arranged at the required dis-' tances apart, and the same be made in quantity and sold to the manufacturers of garments; or it may be produced in short strips ready for attachment to a corset or other garment.

The invention consists in the mode of making button-holes by arranging a series of detached pieces of fabric at suitable distances apart to form the sides of the button-holes, and uniting said detached pieces by a binder applied to the adjacent ends or edges of the detached pieces transversely to the buttonholes, and stitched on or to said detached pieces to hold them in their spaced portions apart, and to close each button-hole at its end or ends. This makes a cheap and superior buttonhole strip, which, while it admits of different modifications as regards construction and finish, and may either have a second binder applied to the opposite adjacent ends or edges of the detached pieces, or said ends or edges be directly inserted in the margin of the garment to which it is required to attach the strip, as hereinafter described, is in every case made as hereinbefore stated.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side or face view of a button-hole strip in part embodying my in vention with a binder applied to only one of its edges, and Fig. 2 a transverse section of the same on the line 00 m in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of a short length or section of a button-hole strip similar to that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but with a binder applied to both of its edges. Fig. 4 is a sidelview of a modified construction of the button-hole stripshown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 a longitudinal section of the same on the line y y in Fig. 4. :Figs; 6,

,7. and 8 are side views of other modifications of the button-hole strip.

In Figs. 1 and 2, A A indicate narrow pieces of cloth, webbing, or other suitable material arranged at any desired distances apart to leave or form button-holes 12 between them, and B is a binder, of either the same or different material, folded longitudinally to receive within it the one end edge of the body-pieces A of the strip, and to hold the same in place by a line of stitching, s. The pieces A in these figures are represented of single thickness, and may be made by cutting a strip of the width of them into sections of the depth of them. WVhen made from a cloth strip with a selvage along either edge, the selvage-edges, as shown at c 0, may be folded or turned over to give a strong and smooth finish to the edges of the button-hole. The pieces A may also, if desired, be cut or bent at the one end of their side edges, as shown at d d, to form an eye to the button-hole.

To apply such button-hole strip to a corset or other article or garment, the free or outer ends of the pieces are stitched onto it or entered within and stitched thereto. Instead, however, of the detached body-piecesAbeing left free at their one end, they may be bound along both ends by binders B, as shown in Fig. 3, and the button-hole strip be attached to the garment along its one bound edge. The detached body-pieces A need not be necessarily of asingle thickness of material. Thus in Figs. 4 and 5 they are represented as formed of strips or pieces doubled or folded over upon themselves, so as to give a doubled or rounded edge, e, on either side of the button-hole b. The meeting edges of such folded portions, which may or may not be turned in, as shown atf in Fig. 5, may either be left free or be secured by a line of stitching, s.

Fig. 6 shows a similar construction to that represented in Figs. 4 and 5, but with a cord, 9, introduced within the doubled or rounded edges e of the pieces A, and held in placeby a line of stitching, s, to give a solid or firm edge to the sides of the button-hole b. The pieces A may be cut from a continuous folded hollow ortubular and corded strip of the width of said pieces by dividing it into sections of the depth of them, Fig. 7 showing such a strip; and in each and every case said detached pieces A, whether of a single or more than one thickness, may be thus cut from a continuous strip, to be afterward held together by the longitudinal binder or binders B. Where the strip from which the body-pieces A. are cut is of a tubular or doubled or folded-over construction, the same may, if desired, as shown in Fig. 7, be made or provided with an interior stiffening, C, of buckram or other suitable material, to give firmness to the button-hole strip.

Fig. 8 shows a button-hole strip in part, in which two binders, B B. are used,runningthe length of the strip, to hold the detached bodypi vces Ato their places, as hereinbefore described, but in which the one of said binders is made to form a longitudinal pocket or open flap, h, to receive the edge of the article or garment to which the button-hole strip is to be sewed or secured. The shape of the buttonhole 6 in each case may be more orless changed by suitably cutting or shaping the detached body-pieces A along their side edges.

' This invention essentially differs from another construction of button-hole strip, which consists of narrow pieces sewed together near the edges of their middle parts, having their edges folded down, folded together at their middle parts, and sewed along the folds, inasmuch as not only when the body pieces of my strip are made of other than a single thickness of material and folded are the samedifferently folded, but said body-pieces,whether single or folded, are wholly detached one from the other, and only united by the binder or binders or article or garment to which they are attached, thereby eeonomizing labor.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The mode of making button-holes herein shown and described, which consists in arranging aseries of detached pieces of fabric at suitable distances apart to form the sides of the button-holes and uniting said detached pieces by applying and sewing a binder along the adjacent ends or edges of the detached pieces transversely to the spaces between said pieces, as set forth.

2. In the mode herein described of making button-holes, first arranging a series of detached pieces of fabric at suitable distances apart to form the sides of the button-holes, and then closing the ends of the button holes and uniting said detached pieces together along their opposite outside ends or edges transversely to the button-holes by sewing binders to or on said detached pieces along the opposite edges of the strip, substantially as specified.

SHERWOOD B. FERRIS.

Witnesses A. GREGORY,- EDGAR TATE. 

